Shipping-tag



NITEI) STATES ATENT Fries.

JOHN A. PEGG, OF JONESTOlVN, MISSISSIPPI.

SHIPPING-TAG.

SPECIPIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,455, dated April 20, 1886,

Application filed July 27, 18 85. Serial No. 172,812. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. PEGG,' of Jonestown, in the county of Goahorna and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Shipping Tag and Label, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of devices used for marking goods that are to be shipped or transported from place to place; and the invention consists of a metal tag or label in or through which the shipping-marks are made or punched, and in certain details of construction, as will be fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims, the tag orlabel being especially adapted to the marking of cotton-bales. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofv this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved form of shipping-tag, showing the same as applied to one of the ties of a cotton-bale. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, the bale and its cover being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line a: a: of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a view of the implement used for attaching the tag.

Relerring to the drawings, A represents a metal plate, upon which the shipping marks, devices, or address, 70 k,are stamped so as tobe in relief, or the plate may beindented,to form the marks; but I greatly prefer to have the marks cut entirely through the plate, which is preferably made of tin, so that when the tag or label is secured to the bale-tie B, in the manner to be hereinafter described, the dark body of the tie will'show through the marks cut in the tag, and thus render the device or marks more conspicuous by reason of the contrast between the white face of the tag and the dark body of the tie.

Two of the sides of the tag or label are serrated or otherwise indented, so as to form prongs or points i z, and the sheet-metal plate of which the tag is formed is bent downward at c c, as best shown in Fig. 3, and each of the flanges b 1), formed by bending down the edges of the plate, is bent inward and then outward,

so that the upper portion of the flange will project beneath the tie B; but the prongs or points i 1' will project outward from the innermost portion, d, of each flange, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In order to attach my tag or label to the bale-tie,I employ a pair of pliers, as C, that are formed with wide jaws ee, between which the tag may be inserted and grasped, as shown in Fig. 4, when it is desired to secure the tag to the tie, which is done by springing the flanges formed on the two sides of the tag over the tie; pressing portions d toward each other by power applied to the lever-arms of the pliers O, and in then releasing the tag, so as to permit the points or prongs i t to enter the fiber of the bagging h.that surrounds the bale H, thus securing the tag to the bale in substantially the position shown in Fig. 3. c

Having thus described my invention, what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic tag or label consisting of a plate with serrated edges on two opposite sides, which are bent downwardly and inwardly and then downwardly and outwardly, as set forth.

2. A metallic tag or label consisting of a plate having inwardly-projecting flanges b d and outwardly-projecting points i on two opposite sides, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the bale-cover and the tie, of a metal tag or label in which two opposite sides are bent downward, inward, and outward, and the outwardly-projecting portion is formed with points or prongs, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the bale cover and the tie, ofa metal shipping tag or label in which the shipping marks or devices are cut through the body of the tag, and in which two opposite sides are bent downward, inward, and outward,and the outwardly-projecting portion is formed with points or prongs, substantially as described.

JOHN A. PEGG.

Witnesses:

W. L. GANONLY, Gno. A. STEELE. 

